The Obama administration believes that at least 12 detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have launched attacks against U.S. or allied forces in Afghanistan, killing about a half-dozen Americans, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Military lawyers prosecuting alleged 9/11 plotters are asking that family members of the victims be allowed to testify in court before the trial begins because of their "advanced age and general health concerns." Prosecutors argue the testimony about the human toll of the attacks could be key in

To his family, friends and FDNY brothers, Capt. John Graziano seemed larger-than-life. Now he'll remain so for all time, at least in their hearts, and certainly in the Eltingville neighborhood where he raised his family.

Thirty of Guantánamo’s war-on-terror prisoners are now approved for release to security arrangements following an interagency parole board’s disclosure Friday that it was clearing an Afghan “forever prisoner.” Bostan Karim, 46, “expressed support for the Government of Afghanistan, the Constitutio

A final decision may be near on a permanent home for the World Trade Center Sphere, the battered sculptural survivor of 9/11. According to several Community Board 1 members, a Port Authority official has encouraged them to support the siting of the 45,000-pound brass orb in Liberty Park.

A group of funeral home workers sat at the bar inside the Heritage Hotel in Southbury one night, about a week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Meanwhile, a group of young journalists were at a nearby table.

At long last, lower Manhattan has a new transit link. And spats over ballooning costs were muted, at least for a day. A new PATH train station at the World Trade Center gained a passageway to the New York City subway Thursday.

he names of two men who died years after responding to the Sept. 11 terror attacks will be added to the Rockland County Police Memorial during a remembrance ceremony Sunday. Deputy U.S. Marshal Zacarias Toro of Nanuet, and NYPD Lt.

The review process surrounding the decision to release 28 classified pages from a joint congressional report that focus on alleged Saudi Arabian involvement in the September 11 attacks is in its final stages, former Sen. Bob Graham told CNN on Wednesday.

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to file lawsuits seeking damages from Saudi Arabia, setting up a potential showdown with the White House, which has threatened a veto.

Hundreds of athletes raced to the top of One World Trade Center on Sunday to remember and to raise money for charity. Nearly 1,000 people participated in the second annual Tunnels to Towers Climb, scaling 2,226 stairs to the top of the New York skyscraper where the World Trade Center once stood.

Though the infamous 9/11 attacks are nearly 15 years behind us, every American adult remembers where they were that day. Chapel Hill resident Joe Dittmar will certainly never forget. He was in a meeting on the 105th floor of Two World Trade Center.

Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, the New York City chief medical examiner who raced to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and returned to the morgue with every rib broken to face the monumental forensic challenge of identifying the 2,753 victims of the attacks, died on Friday in Westwood, N.J.